In her drawings, Marisa Rappard tells fragments of stories in which past and present, fact and fiction coincide. They are stories about journeys to mythical worlds,(un)imaginable islands, and inhospitable regions, far away.

Having arrived, the viewer encounters strange inhabitants. A giant head puking out a human being. A prophet who can see through time. Ghostly animals, fighting with each other. There are rocks on which boats are shipwrecked. An uncertain path leads to a cave in a mysterious mountain. A lone skeleton drifts around, lost at sea. And there is someone carrying a sacred fire.

In her drawings, Rappard makes use of a wide range of lines, 'hand writings', and narrative perspectives. In one work she will focus on a detail: a magic gem, a portrait of a tribal chief. In the following drawing, she will take a step back and show part of a landscape or a mountain. She depicts scenes of men fighting for an island. Next, the island is mapped. And in other drawings, she zooms out further still, and shows all stories entwined in a streaming crisscross of lines, in which figures occasionally appear.

This stream of lines and structures may also go beyond the flat surface of the paper: Rappard uses wooden slats to extend them into space. Sections of drawing spread onto walls, floor and ceiling. Thus, spacial drawings are produced through which the spectator can wander. Here and there he will stumble upon a fragment of a story, and attempt to combine the loose fragments into a logical whole - but whether he'll succeed...?

'As told beyond the horizon' will be opened on Sunday the 8th of September at 16.30 hrs by artist and curator Paul van der Eerden.

Marisa Rappard (Emmen, 1979) lives and works in Utrecht.

Her work will also be on display during the Amsterdam Drawing art fair.